Pigeon Street
PIGEON STREET
Made by: David Yates
Shown on: BBC
Years shown: 1982 onwards
Theme tune: “If you lived in Pigeon Street/Here are the people you could meet/Here are the people who would say hello, goodbye, hello, goodbye/Every day…”
Pigeon Street, narrated by George Layton, was one of the giants of children’s TV in the 1980s - even though there were very few pigeons to be seen. The residents of
Anyway, moving swiftly on, there was also Mr McAdoo, the pet shop owner, who always had a pencil behind his ear; Rose and Daisy, the dotty old women who liked keep-fit; Reg the park-keeper and his wife Doreen, who were keen on ballroom dancing; and Bob, the bike-shop owner, who looked like he might have been at Woodstock. Of course, there was the token black family, made up of William the window-cleaner, his wife Betty, and their adolescent son, Jim. Finally, there was a pair of elderly madmen called Mr Jupiter and Mr Baskerville. If you can’t deduce their hobbies from their names, Mr Jupiter was an amateur astronomer with a telescope and a dog called Flash, and according to the song “looks high” (mmm..); whereas, Mr Baskerville was an amateur sleuth with a magnifying glass and a dog called Watson, and he was inclined to “look low.” They were not, however, as those misleading lyric excerpts might suggest, a drug addict and a manic-depressive.
(Thanks to www.jedisparadise.co.uk for the borrowed pic)
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